CaneSIG
The Cane Railway (Tramline) Modelling Special Interest Group
Modelling Cuban Sugar Cane Railways
The growing number of non-Australian photos in the CaneSIG image collection provide a glimpse of the different ways of handling sugar cane around the world. While many of the Cuban images feature steam locomotives, the major attraction for railfans, the site includes wagons, mills and other features of the Cuban scene.
Available modelling resouces (download
general bibliography, pdf file) include books by Eatwell, Hungrywolf and Rollinson; a commercial CD of photos and maps from Images of Rail; clinic notes by Ray Walter in the 6th Australian Narrow Gauge Convention book; and several overseas videos.
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Lazaro Garcia Driggs, Cuba
This Cuban exhibition railway, photographed by Claus Kleinhapl on a railfan tour in 2003 (right) and located in the Havana Club Museum, La Havana is a 1920s era garden scale layout
(photos,
article) built by Lazaro (Eduardo) Garcia Driggs.
Lazaro is a Cuban professional model maker who also models as a hobby. He's built the Esperanza Sugar Mill (sugar and rum production), various battle dioramas and, most recently, has carved large scale figures for Mountain Blue Miniatures (www.mountainblueminiatures.com).
Photos are either by Lazaro himself (first 12 below) or Claus Kleinhapl, an Australian modeller who, with Ray Walter, also models an On30
Cuban sugar railway.
